Result could cost charities thousands of dollars

9:23 PM,
Feb. 25, 2013

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Charles Davis
Gannett Wisconsin Media

Almost 300 people may have wrongly used registration discount codes for Cellcom Green Bay Marathon events, and a race organizer said that could cost three local charities that benefit from race proceeds more than $10,000.

Organizers began noticing in January that an unusually high number of people had registered for race events using a 50-percent discount code reserved for the employees of major race sponsors, race director Sean Ryan said Monday. Each sponsor was given a single code that all their employees could use, as well as their spouses and dependent children, he said.